WHAT DO WE DO? SOMEONE HELP US DECODE THE COCKTAIL CHATTER OF BELTWAY INSIDERS!!!
The “Zeitgeist” says Bush is up! The “Conventional Wisdom” says he’s down! WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO THINK, WASHINGTON POST.NEWSWEEK INTERACTIVE CO.?
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How, we thought, will we ever catch up on all the news we missed last week, while on our sponsored Happy Hour Tour of the upper Mississippi? So many stories come and gone — and in this fast-paced electronic New Media paradise, why, missing a week of the Note is like missing a year of Huntley-Brinkley! If only there was some service, some regular feature that summed up stuff that was in the news last week… a sort of “week in review,” but less substantive and with more arbitrary rankings and numbers…
Of course! It’s Dana Milbank’s celebrated and beloved feature, the Zeitgeist Checklist. This week’s checklist is checked, after the jump:
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Last week, we (acting against the recommendations of our doctors) mocked Dana Milbank’s new regular feature, CW “The Zeitgeist Checklist” (confidential to WPNI: We are also available to write lists of headline w/ arrows in exchange for lots and lots of money). This week, we are embarrassed to admit that we’re going to do it again.
We note first that Slate has not yet picked up Dana’s “This Week In Last Week” column. That’s no way to maximize synergy, Weisberg. On that note, here’s to the classes that chatter, and what they’ll be chattering about — we highlight a couple items worthy of futher investigation, after the jump.
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Oh boy! The Dana Milbank has a hot new Slate/WaPo feature (you smell that? It’s synergy)! Every week, he’ll tell you what the Insider Beltway Pundit Gangs of 500 Insiders are talking about at their “cocktail parties.” It’s the Zeigeist Checklist, ripped off wholesale (with permission) from an old City Paper feature, completely identical to a number of features at various newsweeklies. Let’s take a look, shall we?
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